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Regular Emulator
>Open program
>Drag and drop ROM file onto it
>Click menu
>Click controls
>Click the big button that says "Map controller"
>Press buttons on controller/keypad as you like
>Exit menu
>Play game
>Literally only repeat step one and the last step for the rest of your life.

Retroarch
>Open Program
>Try to find emulator syst-wait what the fuck?
>Slowly realize that the UI is hard coded around a controller
>The default controls for the keyboard controls are unintuitive at best, outright laughable at worst
>Find system
>"Wait, download a core-what now?"
>Scroll through a billion different cores before you find the system you wanted
>"Uh, why are there like 12 of them?"
>Download the first core
>Select ROM
>Painfully work your way through the file path of where your ROM is
>Load it
>Hit play
>"Error. Core failed to load."
>Go back and get yet ANOTHER core; repeat 0-4 times.
>Finally load the game successfully
>Controls are majorly fucked up now
>Also find out that Retroarch's UI assumed you were using an xbox controller, but then as you enter any game it assumed you actually were using a Switch controller and flips your A/B and your X/Y.
>Fuck around in the configuration files for the game
>FINALLY get to play it.

>Load up retroarch again
>Load a different ROM
>The controls are fucked up again
>"Whoops, asshole, you only edited the config for THAT GAME, now you gotta do it for the system or manually do this every time."

The time it would take me to finish learning and setting up Retroarch nicely, I could download and configure EVERY single emulator manually anyways with 1/100th of the frustration. What's the point of having it?